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The Everything Book Club: Evening Zoom

"Euphoria" by Lily King

A live and lively librarian-led book club discussion about a wide range of titles and genres. Register here for EVENING ZOOM or on Tuesday, January 18 for DAYTIME IN PERSON! Registration required.

ABOUT THE BOOK CLUB

If you like everything bagels, you'll probably like The Everything Book Club. We read the best of fiction and non-fiction, literary novels, mysteries, historical fiction, memoirs and more. We generally meet on the third week of the month at two convenient times and venues:  Evening Zoom on Thursday at 7 p.m. and Daytime in person at 1 p.m. (outside in the warmer months, weather permitting). You can switch from one meeting to another or skip a month...you are always welcome as long as we have enough room. Registration is required.

ABOUT THE BOOK

"Euphoria" is both historical fiction and a fictionalized biography. It won the Kirkus Prize and the New England Book Award for Fiction and appeared on the "top 10 books of the year" lists of The New York Times  Book Review, Time magazine, NPR, and Entertainment Weekly in 2014.

A love triangle between three anthropologists plays out in the rainforests of New Guinea in 1933. Within months the trio are producing their best ever work, but soon a firestorm of fierce love and jealousy begins to burn out of control, threatening their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives. Based on incidents in the life of Margaret Mead. 

“Euphoria is a meticulously researched homage to Mead’s restless mind and a considered portrait of Western anthropology in its primitivist heyday. It’s also a taut, witty, fiercely intelligent tale of competing egos and desires in a landscape of exotic menace—a love triangle in extremis . . . The steam the book emits is as much intellectual as erotic . . . and King’s signal achievement may be to have created satisfying drama out of a quest for interpretive insight . . . King is brilliant on the moral contradictions that propelled anthropological encounters with remote tribes . . . In King’s exquisite book, desire—for knowledge, fame, another person—is only fleetingly rewarded.” —The New York Times Book Review (cover review)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lily King is The New York Times bestselling author of four other novels, including the New York Times bestseller, "Writers & Lovers" (2020). Her first story collection, "Five Tuesdays in Winter," was published in 2021. Her work has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Kirkus Prize, the New England Book Award for Fiction (twice), The Maine Fiction Award (twice), a Whiting Award, and the B&N Discover Award. She has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway. Lily lives in Portland, Maine.

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